What does swelly mean?
Swelly means (informal) Tending to bulge or swell..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(informal) Tending to bulge or swell..
He had a nasty face though, the boy considered, and looked like a bounder because he had pimples, a swelly nose, a loud voice, and a swanky manner. The boy disapproved of him wholly.
Between the two extremes, the line of coast passes through a very great depression of the strata, designated locally a "swelly," and constituting that feature generally met with in coal fields which is properly termed a basin. This greatest depression takes place near the town of Sunderland, where the coal beds are at a depth of 300 fathoms, or 1,800 feet, below the level of the sea, […]
Swellies are depressions of seams of coal: the floor and roof dipping into a trough and rising out of it in most cases to such a level as they would have been found to exist, had no disturbance taken place. In such cases the coal in the bottom of the trough or swelly is commonly of unusual thickness. An excellent example of a swelly is found at Seaton Delaval Colliery, in Northumberland.
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Swelly means (informal) Tending to bulge or swell..
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He had a nasty face though, the boy considered, and looked like a bounder because he had pimples, a swelly nose, a loud voice, and a swanky manner. The boy disapproved of him wholly.
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